Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-06
A MEXICAN FLOWER SHOW
Peculiar Types Of Spanish and Mexican
Beauty-A G ambling Girl.

Beauty-A G ambling Girl.
Mexican Letter to Boston Herald.
All types of Spanish and Mexican beauty
filled the little plaza of Mixcoa that Sun
day afternoon. There were the flashing
eyes of CASTLE, the large, liquid, melan
choly eyes of the Moores set in true Moor.
ish faces, and the gray or blue eyes of the
| Germanic conquerors of the Iberian PENN
suls There was tall, slender girl in q
neat brown toilette, with eyes that seemed
to magnatize her admirers-eyes dark and
lustrous, which were not used with artful-
ness, but were, by nature and without art,
of the sort that make of these sus-
ceptible male Latins slaves and serfs
One superb woman might have been taken
for goddess of Mexican liberty She was
of a blonde type, but with dark eyes; erect,
sympathetic in the Spanish and Italian
sense, of noble proportions fit for the can
vas of Titan. There were so many hand
some women and girls on the grounds, that
the men who had come out to see the flow
er show quite forgot the wonders of vege-
tation and gave themselves up to admira-
ton of natures masterpiece. Mexico
might make of her finest women an exhibit
that would conquer the hearts of civilized
men and bring half of Europe here to find
its fate A feature of the exhibition. and
tolerated with true southern carlessness
was the gambling. There were roulette
tables in full swing, card games, and last
but not bit the least, the three. card
monte men. All these people and their
apparatus were kept outside the low wall
of the plaza, 1t was very funny to watch
the monte sharps, who were each accom-
panied by one or two confederates, who,
affecting Indifference, would saunter up
and win from 81 to s. with entire equan-
unity. But all these gamblers had the
hard set mouth, the deep, dropping lines
over the lips that mark the man who lives
by games of chance. The monte operators
had blankets of gaudy hue which they sat
upon. manipulating the cards with great
rapidity and calling out necessarily:
Colorado Colorado. Colorado Blanco
Blancol Blanco, tastas vueltas' tastas vuel
tasr' ETC., till one was quite deafened. One
chap had a confederate who assumed the
role Of nurse girl. She was modestly
dressed in cotton frock. and neat cotton
reoozo covered head and shoulders. She
was the picture of girlish innocence. and
when she first staked big silver dollar On
the card she had selected | thought her a
sort of foolish maiden who was being en-
trapped by guileful man. She Won, and
then tried again and Won once more. Some
people, tempted by her luck, tried their
haud-and lost Soon the monte sharp had
shifted his blanket 10 another place. fol-
lowed him and there found. trying hsr
hand again, that innocent damsel dressed as
a nursemaid in the service OF q gosd fam
II. As often as the monte man took new
place so often was 10 be found the nurse
girl. and how artless she won her dollars,
which afterward she slyly gave back TO
her partner Many soldiers played
81 roulette, some winning and
some losing. The faces Of
big eyed little bows watching the rolling
of the ball were study. The police stood
abou, IDLY. never interfering with The
busy gamblers but ready TO see ,hs; 10
one robbed the piles Of silver lying On
blankets on the ground or On red colcrei
tables in the open sir or under tents PEG
pie los; and won. and generally lost No
one complained to the police, snd &c one
erul.ed over his luck, OF beuaoAned his
loss The best people did nos grarnble,
though one handsome man, with his wife
| on his arm, felt Der tug q; his sleeve 70 take
him away from . particularly good
chance to pick up q monte mans pile.